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I think the national guard is fascinating but don't know much about it.
I am a member of the national guard! I hold a full time civilian job and am a part time National Guard member! I love it!
That is a lot of work! But it sounds like you find it worthwhile.
Oh I do! Interestingly, the National Guard is under the control of both the state and the federal government.
Huh. I did not know that. What else can you tell me?
Well, because I am a National Guard member, I am also a member of the United States militia!
Right! National Guard is like a reserve member right? | United States National Guard
The United States National Guard, also commonly referred to as the National Guard, is part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. It is a reserve military force composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations. All members of the National Guard of the United States are also members of the militia of the United States as defined by | announced departures of Jacqueline Leonard and Paul Nicholls who played Lorraine and Joe Wicks. Bradley said, "I have made a decision about leaving EastEnders and I have told the BBC about it. I know it is regular work and you are in the public eye, but it is time to move on. Much as I love playing Nigel, I would not like people to think that was all I did. I did a lot of work before EastEnders and I will after. I don't want to be like some people | 78,800 | wow-train |
I love a good comedy bit! Do you have a favorite comedian?
favourite comedian, great question. I guess not one comedian but a group. I Love Monty Python
The pythons? Like the flying circus guys? Awesome! You're a fan of the oldies, I see.
like a great wine, comedies get better with age, haha. Yeah like the flying circus but i also enjoy their solo ventures, like fawlty towers
12 episodes was definitely not enough for me, though!
most definitely taken before it's time. Like Firefly was, did you watch firefly at all? | Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the , "kōmōidía") refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a | more than any other male actor who was not a Python. Despite this, Davidson did not appear in any Python-related media subsequent to series 2, though footage of him was shown on the documentary "Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python".
Stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard, a devoted fan of the group, has occasionally stood in for absent members. When the BBC held a "Python Night" in 1999 to celebrate 30 years of the first broadcast of "Flying Circus", the Pythons | 78,801 | wow-train |
What is the best way to get out of debt?
Debt is money owed by someone known as a debtor, to a second party known as the creditor, so the best way to get out of debt is to stop borrowing and start paying.
What percentage of my debt do I need to pay each month to get out of debt?
I'm not sure, but the process of pursuing payments that are owed by a borrower is known as debt collection.
I have heard some debt like borrowing for a house is a good thing.
Yes, mortgage loans are secured by the borrowers own property. This is called "mortgage origination".
Will paying more than the minimum each month on debt help my credit score? | Credit score
A credit score is a numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of an individual. A credit score is primarily based on a credit report, information typically sourced from credit bureaus.
Lenders, such as banks and credit card companies, use credit scores to evaluate the potential risk posed by lending money to consumers and to mitigate losses due to bad debt. Lenders use credit scores to determine who qualifies for a loan, at what interest rate, and | Housser and his business partner, Brad Stroh, founded Freedom Financial Network in 2002. Freedom Debt Relief, the largest division of Freedom Financial Network, provides debt settlement services. Debt settlement, also known as debt arbitration or debt negotiation, is a unique approach to debt reduction in which the debtor and creditor agree on a reduced balance that will be regarded as payment in full.
The company was founded with the goal of providing consumers with a viable alternative to bankruptcy as a way to get out of debt. " | 78,802 | wow-train |
Hi how often do you drink alcohol?
I don't drink alcohol at all. But I do have a relative who died from alcohol abuse.
i'm sorry for that, i drank alcohol a lot of times, some months ago i didn't drink for 3 months
That is great to hear. The long-term effects of alcohol can cause higher rates of cardiovascular disease and be detrimental.
yes.. think that alcohol is legal and weed is illegal
True. However, they just passed a law legalizing medical marijuana where I live.
Fantastic, i hope your country will spend that in the right way | Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
The removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the most tightly restricted category reserved for drugs that have "no currently accepted medical use," has been proposed repeatedly since 1972.
Rescheduling proponents argue that cannabis does not meet the Controlled Substances Act's strict criteria for placement in Schedule I and so the government is required by law to permit medical use or to remove the drug from federal control altogether. The US government, on the other | policy Drinking age.
Johnson is in favor of lowering the legal drinking age to 18, or eliminating the drinking age outright; "I just believe that the lower the age the better you come to grips with what these substances are... If you can go to Iraq and die, or Afghanistan and die as a service man or women at 18, and you can't drink — I'm sorry I don't buy into that."
Current federal legislation mandates that states adopt laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol to individuals | 78,803 | wow-train |
Cooking is a huge hobby of mine. I rarely ever eat out. | Cooking
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants | tired or sweaty. He would rather hang out on the couch, watching video games or eat his father's cooking. In "Artsy-Fartsy", Aldo is given a sketchbook by his grandmother, Goosy, to draw in. Aldo is embarrassed by his drawing and is mortified that someone might find out.
Characters Jack.
Jack is Aldo's best friend. Jack lives a few houses down the street from Aldo. Jack is fluent in both English and Spanish and is a huge rock collector. Jack knows about | 78,804 | wow-train |
I love the song California love by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
when did this song come out ?
The song was released in 1995, after Tupac Released form prison
nice, why did he end up in prison then ?
He got in trouble with the law about his violent actions.
i see, are you a fan of his other albums ? | number one in New Zealand. The song was nominated for a posthumous Grammy Award as a Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) in 1997.
A popular remix version of the song appeared on his 1996 double album "All Eyez on Me".
Original version.
The original version was not available on any of Shakur's studio albums due to it being intended for Dr. Dre's shelved album "The Chronic II: A New World Odor | California Love
"California Love" is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pac's comeback single after his release from prison in 1995 and was his first single as the newest artist of Death Row Records. This is one of 2Pac's most widely known singles and his most successful, reaching number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for two weeks (as a double A-side single with "How Do U Want It") and five weeks at | 78,805 | wow-train |
Swimming is the self-proplsion of a person through a body of water. Do you know how to swim?
Yeah i love swimming specially in the ocean beafore the sunset | Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both. Humans can hold their breath underwater and undertake rudimentary locomotive swimming within weeks of birth, as a survival response.
Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities, and in some countries, swimming lessons are a compulsory part of the educational curriculum. As a formalized sport, swimming features in a range of | How to swim
How to Swim is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1942.
How to swim may also refer to:
- How to Swim (band), a pop/rock band from Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Ability to swim, the ability in a range of organisms to propel motion through a liquid medium
- Human swimming, the self propulsion of a person through water for survival, recreation, sport, or exercise
- Swimming (sport), a water based sport | 78,806 | wow-train |
I really love spiders, in fact I study them for a living, Are there any cool facts that you would like to know about them?
I'm actually kind of scared of them. So, anything you could tell me to convince me they're interesting would be great!
Well if it makes you feel any better they are not like insects, spiders dont have antennae. which often scares people when they look at other insects.
Yeah, I guess that helps a little. Are there any popular, more well-known spiders I should know about? | Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs able to inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exceptions of air and sea colonization. , at least 48,200 spider species, and 120 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been dissension within the scientific community as | work; Hawkins could talk but only in a croaking voice.
"The fact that producers are still offering me work is a source of much gratitude to me", he said in 1969. "I flatter myself that when they cast me in a part it's me Jack Hawkins they want and not the person who was once Jack Hawkins... if you know what I mean. And I'm perfectly honest with anyone who hires me. I tell them exactly what they're letting themselves in for."
Some | 78,807 | wow-train |
This might seem crazy but I have never had candy in my life ever.
If you have eaten sweets before then you know candy. It is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.
I have had brownies and cake before but not candy.
Well, I'm sure you have eaten chocolates before because candy including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.
What about shock tarts or candy that is sour? | Candy
Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called "sugar confectionery", encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be "candied".
Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar or sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people | icing on the cake."
Estevez added "I learned that you don't go into a project with a script that's not ready. You've got to have all the bugs worked out before you start... I also learned how to be more economical with my shots and with my time... [I was] like a kid in a candy store. When you're 23 and somebody hands you $4.5 million and tells you to go out and make a film, there will be some excesses." | 78,808 | wow-train |
I have a baby due in December and the thought of rearing a child scares me. Do you have kids?
No I don't. I can imagine though that it would be a little stressful. Do you know if it will be a boy or a girl?
We are not finding out until it's born. We both plan to be very involved in the caretaker process and not use other family.
That sounds like a good idea. Is it your first baby?
Yes, We have been together 11 years so it's time. I'm worried about my lack of Parenting skills and what it will take to be a good parent.
There are some good books available about the subject I am sure. But I think it's a natural instinct that will take over.
Hopefully, We do not want to rely on any government support to rear the child.
Sometimes it's needed. Babies can be expensive, but if you can afford not to then that is great also. | Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding, also known as nursing, is the feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman's breast. Health professionals recommend that breastfeeding begin within the first hour of a baby's life and continue as often and as much as the baby wants. During the first few weeks of life babies may nurse roughly every two to three hours, and the duration of a feeding is usually ten to fifteen minutes on each breast. Older children feed less often. Mothers may pump milk so that it can be | between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way of paying the price for saying or seeing things. You will remember that I discovered these things as a late learner. Polymorphous perversity in the literal, physical sense is not the real issue. I don't like | 78,809 | wow-train |
Drawing is a form of visual art
Drawing can be difficult to do - I certainly can't do it! What are some famous drawings?
A person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper
I bet the more elaborate drawings have taken quite some time.
Instruments includes graphite pencils
It's amazing that such great artworks can come from simple tools such as pencils or paint.
they also make use of inked brushes, wax colored pencils, crayons
Do you know what kinds of surfaces that they use for artworks? | stylus- or finger-to-touchpad, or in some cases, a mouse. There are many digital art programs and devices.
A drawing instrument releases a small amount of material onto a surface, leaving a visible mark. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means | Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium. Instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). Digital drawing is the act of using a computer to draw. Common methods of digital drawing include a stylus or finger on a touchscreen device, | 78,810 | wow-train |
I love to eat juicy steaks. Medium rare with A1 steak sauce please!
Steak is so good, love any cut of meat like steak
I like T-Bones and New York Strips. When I have money to burn I go for filet mignon.
Any steak cut is great imo, love the juicy meat
I could never be a vegetarian. Beef is just too good. They are really missing out. | Steak
A steak () is a meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, potentially including a bone. Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and includes three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.
Steak is usually grilled, but can be pan | with televised home shopping channel QVC.
Today, managed by David Grosenheider (president, consumer division), The Kansas City Steak Company distributes meat products to restaurants across the United States and delivers packaged gourmet products nationwide.
Products.
Kansas City Steak Company uses Midwestern corn-fed beef to create and sell Filet Mignon, Kansas City strips, top sirloin, T-bones, Porterhouse and ribeye steaks, beef roasts and Steakburgers. The company's offerings include their Private Stock line of USDA Prime beef and American Style | 78,811 | wow-train |
Spongebob is a great character and television show. Have you ever seen it? | SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The fifth-longest-running American animated series, its popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as the highest rated series to ever air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of Viacom Media Networks. As of late 2017, the media franchise has generated $ | frequent appearances in media outside of the television show, including a theatrical film series and many video games. The characters have also been referenced and parodied throughout popular culture. The title character SpongeBob became a merchandising icon during the height of the show's second season and has seen continued commercial popularity.
Creation and conception.
Stephen Hillenburg originally conceived early versions of the "SpongeBob SquarePants" characters in 1984, while he was teaching and studying marine biology at what is now the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point, California | 78,812 | wow-train |
I love the color yellow I feel it suits my eyes very well lol.
Haha yes, I love yellow too, I like it because its the color between green and orange on the spectrum of visible light
So if I mix those colors will I end up with yellow or more of a yellow green?
I think you get a darker yellowish color if I'm not mistaken.
Even though I like the color I dislike bananas lol the mushy taste is just not good to me. | clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – "Musa acuminata" and "Musa balbisiana". The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are "Musa acuminata", "Musa balbisiana", and "Musa" × "paradisiaca" for the hybrid "Musa acuminata" × "M. balbisiana", depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, "Musa sapientum", is no longer used. | of mother and baby.
To symbolize the closeness of mother and baby, he used adjacent colors of the color wheel, green, blue and yellow in this work. The vibrant yellow background creates a warm glow around mother and baby, like a very large halo. Of his use of color, Van Gogh wrote: "instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color... to express myself more forcibly." The work contains varying brushstrokes, some straight, some turbulent - which | 78,813 | wow-train |
I don't know if I like chili dogs or corn dogs the best. What do you like? | , granted in 1929, for a "Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus," describes corn dogs, among other fried food impaled on a stick; it reads in part:
In "300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles", author Linda Campbell Franklin states that a "Krusty Korn Dog" baker machine appeared in the 1929 Albert Pick-L. Barth wholesale catalog of hotel and restaurant supplies. The 'korn dogs' were baked in a corn batter and resembled ears of corn when cooked.
A number | so much regulation, if you're working on a film and two people get injured, they come in and they shut you down. They have safety meetings and they say, 'What are we gonna do to change this situation?' If they did that to us after two bites, we would have said, 'I don't know what else we can do differently. Should we do it with dogs? I don't know!' If we wanna make a movie with lions, people are gonna | 78,814 | wow-train |
I love to sew and have been doing it for most of my life. How about you?
of course I sew! it's probably about the oldest textile art. it started all the way back in the Paleolithic era, way before I was born haha!
I feel the same way. I started when I was very young on my grandmother's treadle machine and had to learn the rhythm. | an ancient history estimated to begin during the Paleolithic Era. Sewing was used to stitch together animal hides for clothing and for shelter. The Inuit, for example, used sinew from caribou for thread and needles made of bone; the indigenous peoples of the American Plains and Canadian Prairies used sophisticated sewing methods to assemble tipi shelters. Sewing was combined with the weaving of plant leaves in Africa to create baskets, such as those made by Zulu weavers, who used thin strips of palm leaf as "thread" to stitch wider strips | guy is great and he's every quality that I'm looking for, [but] I just don't know if it's there forever," explained Jen in a comment.
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However, when Jerry proposes, she replies, "I have 100% fallen for you but I've been here before and just want to make sure that we do it right. I want you to keep that, I want you to give it back to me if you feel the same way about me down the road | 78,815 | wow-train |
Hi! I love to travel, I go to so many different places!
Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations
That is correct! Sometimes when I travel it takes a long time to get there because it is so far! | Travel
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.
Etymology.
The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word "travail", which means ' | but we’d get to tournaments and I’d be so scared at the beginning and I’d get so far behind that maybe I’d finish third or fourth. Sometimes second, but I never shot good enough at the beginning to actually win anything. But through practice, and John convincing me that I was better than I thought I was, I finally learned how to win."
"I liked archery because I was good at it and I got to travel for free, but also, when you shoot that | 78,816 | wow-train |
Now that summer is here, I get to do my favorite sport, swimming.
I hear that! I took up recreational swimming at the public pool at the YMCA,and I love it.
Its among the top recreational activities and great exercise too.
Do you have a favorite stroke you like to practice? Butterfly, backstroke, for instance?
I guess the breaststroke and the butterfly. I love watching Olympic swimmers too.
Yeah! You can certainly win a lot of Olympic medals at swimming, much like Michael Phelps.
He is amazing to watch. Its a cardiovascular aerobic exercise, except for short sprints. | local, national, and international competitions, including every modern Summer Olympics.
Science.
Swimming relies on the nearly neutral buoyancy of the human body. On average, the body has a relative density of 0.98 compared to water, which causes the body to float. However, buoyancy varies on the basis of body composition, lung inflation, and the salinity of the water. Higher levels of body fat and saltier water both lower the relative density of the body and increase its buoyancy.
Since the human body is | , that "“it was great to do a record like that with Timbaland. He was one of my favorite producers, so to work with him was a dream come true [...] you can hear the yearning for love. I never had an aphrodisiac in my life until now." She declared the song her favorite track on the album.
Critical reception.
Upon its release, "Afrodisiac" was praised by music critics for its unconventional production, progressive structure, and Norwood's vocal performance. Rachel | 78,817 | wow-train |
i have a beard that is longer than most people
Well, in humans only adult males are typically able to grow beards. So you must be an adult male :D
:) yes I am
Haha, well it is a vestigial trait from back when humans were covered in hair like gorillas
I always wonder why the face we have a beard when it is not necessary anymore
Yes, it's just leftovers lol. In some cultures, though, beards are associated with poor hygine or being a savage. I wouldn't recommend vacationing in those places.
so which hair grows faster, facial hair or hair on the head? | , Traditional Christianity, Orthdox Judaism and Sikhism) have considered a full beard to be absolutely essential for all males able to grow one and mandate it as part of their official dogma. Other cultures, even while not officially mandating it, view a beard as central to a man's virility, exemplifying such virtues as wisdom, strength, sexual prowess and high social status. In cultures where facial hair is uncommon (or currently out of fashion), beards may be associated with poor hygiene or an uncivilized, dangerous demeanor. | Beard
A beard is the unshaven hair that grows on the chin, upper lip, cheeks and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually only pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards. Some women with hirsutism, a hormonal condition of excessive hairiness, may develop a beard.
Throughout the course of history, societal attitudes toward male beards have varied widely depending on factors such as prevailing cultural-religious traditions and the current era's fashion trends. Some religions (such as Islam | 78,818 | wow-train |
Hi do you listen to Katie Jane Perry (born 30 December 1980) is an English-born
No, I'm not familiar with her. Is she a celebrity?
she's an English-born Australian fashion designer.
Oh, okay. What kind of clothes does she design? | closely with the Benetton brothers before launching her own label in the 1970s, dressing those such as Diana, Princess of Wales and Paul McCartney.
Perry studied at FBI Fashion College in Glebe, Sydney. She launched her label in 2007. She chose to have the collection made in Australia, using Australian jersey fabric.
In September 2008, Perry submitted a trademark application for her label, which was formally approved as trademark number 1264761 in the Australian Official Journal of Trademarks, on 29 January 2009. In June 2009, | Katie Perry
Katie Jane Perry (born 30 December 1980) is an English-born Australian fashion designer. Her label began in the Paddington Markets, and continued with a shop in Sydney.
Life and career.
Perry was born in Camden, London, England. In early years, after the separation of her parents, she traveled with her mother and her mother's partner, and lived on four continents (Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia). She now lives in Sydney.
Her mother worked | 78,819 | wow-train |
I just sent my last job! im a digital artist, so an essential part of my work is technology!
how cool! what exactly do you do?
I have a company that creates 3d printers with pc... its very rewarding to see a 3d print
what is a 3d print? | create a three-dimensional object, with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or powder grains being fused together), typically layer by layer. In the 1990s, 3D-printing techniques were considered suitable only for the production of functional or aesthetical prototypes and a more appropriate term was rapid prototyping. the precision, repeatability and material range have increased to the point that some 3D-printing processes are considered viable as an industrial-production technology, whereby the term additive manufacturing can be used synonymously with "3D printing | barely notice anything no matter how fast you move ... To force the 3D effects for robots and monsters that are supposed to be big you are making their [perspective] miniaturized, making them human scale.
It was later announced that the film would be converted to 3D, with the conversion taking 40 weeks longer than most. Del Toro said: "What can I tell you? I changed my mind. I'm not running for office. I can do a Romney."
Del Toro cut approximately an hour | 78,820 | wow-train |
I have been trying to get back into shape. I really like working out and toning my muscles.
You should try Crunch Fitness! It's so much fun! They offer quirky classes like bicycle yoga, coed wrestling and pole dancing!
Wow! Pool dancing sounds like a really great workout. Swimming and dance are a great workout by themselves, it has to hurt together. | -based yoga, coed wrestling, an "Abs, Thighs and Gossip" class run by a drag queen, and Capoeira. Although the classes were later standardized across various locations, some popular offbeat classes remained, such as dodgeball and karaoke bicycling.
Bally Total Fitness bought Crunch in 2001 for $90 million in cash and stock. Initially intending to double the size to 40 gyms, Bally found the business unprofitable and was unable to get out of long-term leases in poorly performing locations. In 2005 Bally's | carried out routines in her underwear. She also had a pole set up in her living room to carry on practicing. Speaking of her research Walton stated: "I loved it. It's really good exercise. It's really good for toning. They didn't ask me to, but I did... I went and I had pole dancing classes. I had a pole put up in my living room."
Though Walton had initially signed on for a three-month stint Allan decided to renew her contract in | 78,821 | wow-train |
I love Karaoke because its used by recording engineers to refer to an instrumental version of a recording
I see, I've enjoyed singing karaoke myself
yea and in 1961, NBC carried a karaoke like series called sing along with Mitch where lyrics were superimposed on the screen for home audience participation
Wow, i didn't know it went back that far
yea but the different between sing alone and karaoke is the absence of the lead vocalist
I see, are there any other differences? | . The primary difference between Karaoke and sing-along songs is the absence of the lead vocalist.
Sing-alongs (present since the beginning of singing) fundamentally changed with the introduction of new technology. In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, stored audible materials began to dominate the music recording industry and revolutionized the portability and ease of use of band and instrumental music by musicians and entertainers as the demand for entertainers increased globally. This may have been attributable to the introduction of music cassette tapes, technology that arose | In several Asian countries such as China, Cambodia or the Philippines, a karaoke box is called a KTV. The global karaoke market has been estimated to be worth nearly $10 billion.
History.
History 1960s: Development of audio-visual-recording devices.
From 1961–1966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, "Sing Along with Mitch", featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus, which superimposed the lyrics to their songs near the bottom of the TV screen for home audience participation | 78,822 | wow-train |
I think it would be a rewarding job to be a lawyer, do you think so?
Somewhat. You have to be good at the practical application of legal theory to solve specific problems
Yes I would think so. I think they typically have to have a college degree too right?
Yes, and since a lawyer can be anyone who practices law in some form, the kind of education differs.
Right I have heard of paralegals too. I know they make a lot of money compared to most other professions | as a CP or CLA. The CP and CLA credential is recognized by the American Bar Association and State Bars.
To become a CP in the United States, the candidate voluntarily passes the Certified Paralegal Exam (CP Exam). The Certified Paralegal program - the oldest in the United States - was established in 1976 and is administered by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). The CP designation is a certification duly registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (No. 78213275)
The term "certified | " that the series had finished. On his co-stars, he added "There is a bond there that I think would be a stupid thing to waste. You don't get that bond very often with other performers and we do have it and it's a valuable thing".
In the same interview, when asked whether the series had finished, both co-creators answered with a simultaneous "Yes!". Morris expressed that "I think the time is right. After the first film, I | 78,823 | wow-train |
The Simpsons have been such a part/refelction of modern American culture. Are you a fan of the show?
I love it! Homer Simpson is probably my favorite protagonist of any animated show
Yes, Homer represents such a lovable oaf trying his best to navigate this American life and providing laughs along the way.
Yeah Homer's whole character is great. Everything Matt Groening creates is masterful, especially Futurama
I really would love to get Matt Groening's take on the current state of America and our future. There have been so many times his shows have predicted the future. | Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and is revived in the 31st century. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on "The Simpsons"; he brought David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox.
In the United States, the series aired on | Homer Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom "The Simpsons". He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in "The Tracey Ullman Show" short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip | 78,824 | wow-train |
I love to swim. It seems to be one of the top public recreational activities.
swimming is nice, what do you enjoy most about it?
I like gliding through the water. It is great for exercise and is a good competitive sport too.
oh yea? who is your favorite swimmer? | only slightly less dense than water, water supports the weight of the body during swimming. As a result, swimming is “low-impact” compared to land activities such as running. The density and viscosity of water also create resistance for objects moving through the water. Swimming strokes use this resistance to create propulsion, but this same resistance also generates drag on the body.
Hydrodynamics is important to stroke technique for swimming faster, and swimmers who want to swim faster or exhaust less try to reduce the drag of the | It was good to get your letter. I find that when one is blind one misses one's friends.
You ask if I am doing any writing. The answer is "almost none"... It is not that this new job of mine is impossibly onerous. Far from it. My complaint is the other way about. If and when you come to see me, which I do hope will not be too far hence, I can tell you what it feels like to go into low gear when one has | 78,825 | wow-train |
I like to ride my unicycle. It has only one wheel that touches the ground.
You must be talented to do that
I do ok, but it can be practiced professionally at festivals or by street performers.
Is it a circus event too? | trials.
History.
US patents for single-wheeled 'velocipedes' were published in 1869 by Frederick Myers and in 1881 by Battista Scuri.
Unicycle design has developed since the Penny Farthing and later the advent of the first unicycle into many variations including: the seatless unicycle ("ultimate wheel") and the tall ("giraffe") unicycle. During the late 1980s some extreme sportsmen took an interest in the unicycle and modified unicycles to enable them to engage in off-road or mountain unicycling, trials | Unicycle
A unicycle is a vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel. The most common variation has a frame with a saddle, and has a pedal-driven direct drive. A two speed hub is commercially available for faster unicycling. Unicycling is practiced professionally in circuses, by street performers, in festivals, and as a hobby. Unicycles have also been used to create new sports such as unicycle hockey. In recent years, unicycles have also been used in mountain unicycling, an activity similar to mountain biking or | 78,826 | wow-train |
I enjoy water skiing on Vermont's Lake Champlain
I have only went water skiing once, it was really fun though!
Lake Champlain is really beautiful. Much of it's coastline is undeveloped.
I need to take a vacation up there, I hear the scenery is quite beautiful! | Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain (; ; Abenaki: "Pitawbagok"; ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the Canada–U.S. border, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of Clinton County and Essex County. Most of this area is part of the Adirondack Park. There are recreational facilities in the park and along the relatively undeveloped | to reach the Hudson though the marshes and forests at the southern end of Lake Champlain, led to the British defeat at Saratoga.
On May 31, 1791, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to his daughter, "Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock | 78,827 | wow-train |
Even though they kinda scare me, the idea of owning a snake is so interesting, since they're legless and reptiles and I've only owned cats.
I would never want to own a snake.
Yeah, I don't think petting something covered with overlapping scales would be a good time.
Yea and if they bite your dead.
True. What's weird is that they have their organs in front of each other instead of side by side from how narrow their bodies are.
I did not know that. You know a lot about snakes. | Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species | through a breakup with a girl. Because in reality, I don't like strip clubs. I think they're kinda perverted", says Ryan Ross. Ross went on to say, "When I wrote it, I never thought about it being played in strip clubs. But I guess it would be kind of a change from what they usually play in there", he said. "It would be a surreal experience, for sure. I think the tempo is too fast, though. So maybe someone would | 78,828 | wow-train |
Pugs were brought in from China to Europe in the sixteenth century.
so that is where they are from, China | Pugs (programming)
Pugs is a compiler and interpreter for the Perl 6 programming language, started on February 1, 2005, by Audrey Tang.
Pugs development is now placed on hiatus, with most Perl 6 implementation efforts now taking place on Rakudo.
Overview.
The Pugs project aims to bootstrap Perl 6 by implementing the full Perl 6 specification, as detailed in the Synopses. It is written in Haskell, specifically targeting the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Pugs includes two main executables:
- "Pugs | Pug
The pug is a breed of dog with physically distinctive features of a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colours, most often fawn or black, and a compact square body with well-developed muscles.
Pugs were brought from China to Europe in the sixteenth century and were popularized in Western Europe by the House of Orange of the Netherlands, and the House of Stuart. In the United Kingdom, in the nineteenth | 78,829 | wow-train |
My friend went to a cookout today and they had grilled steak. Now I've been wanting one. He made it sound so good. You like steak?
I do, especially because of how versatile it is. I mean, there are fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steaks, and those are just to name a few.
Yeah that's true. I automatically think beef when I here steak. All those you named are good. I really like tuna steaks too.
And just as there are so many varieties of steak, there's a lot of variety in how you can cook them. So, you have things like grilled steak, pan-fried steak, or even broiled steak.
Which is your favorite way t cook it? I like to marinate mine before grilling with almost any kind of steak. | -fried. It is often grilled in an attempt to replicate the flavor of steak cooked over the glowing coals of an open fire. Steak can also be cooked in sauce, such as in steak and kidney pie, or minced and formed into patties, such as hamburgers.
Steaks are often cut from grazing animals, usually farmed, other than cattle, including bison, camel, goat, horse, kangaroo, sheep, ostrich, pigs, reindeer, turkey, deer, and zebu, as well as various types | Steak
A steak () is a meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, potentially including a bone. Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and includes three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.
Steak is usually grilled, but can be pan | 78,830 | wow-train |
Hamburger.is my favorite food or do I say snacks ,do you love them too?
Oh yeah! Pan fry it; barbecue it; flame broil it. I'll take it any way! Do you have favorite toppings and condiments?
Nope ,I only just eat as served except you have a particular condiment
I like one piled with cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, and a bunch of extra pickles! How about the special sauce...do you like Big Macs?
Wow ,that's a whole lot! Where does it originate from?
The Big Mac was introduced in 1967 and went nationwide the very next year so people adore that special sauce!
Which country first had the taste of hamburger? | diners, and specialty and high-end restaurants (where burgers may sell for several times the cost of a fast-food burger, but may be one of the cheaper options on the menu). There are many international and regional variations of the hamburger.
Etymology and terminology.
The term "hamburger" originally derives from Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city. In German, "Burg" means "castle", "fortified settlement" or "fortified refuge" and is a widespread component of place | He said: "I must admit, magic does help attract the ladies. Women really love my magic – but when guys see them crowding round, they want to get in on the act too and muscle them out of the way. Women like any tricks to do with money. I have one where I put a pen through a note but leave it intact and they go mad for it. But I have a strict rule for women – if one asks you back to hers after midnight, always say no – | 78,831 | wow-train |
Do you like Volkswagons? I drive a VW passat, a large family-style car.
I think the VW bug is a neat little car. I have never driven a VW brand so I can't say I dislike them. | Volkswagen Jetta
The Volkswagen Jetta () is a compact car/small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen since 1979. Positioned to fill a sedan niche above the firm's Golf hatchback, it has been marketed over seven generations, variously as the Atlantic, Fox, Vento, Bora, City Jetta, Jetta City, GLI, Jetta, Clasico, Voyage, and Sagitar (in China).
The Jetta has been offered in two- and four-door saloon / sedan, and five-door wagon / estate | the Volkswagen T2 Microbus to use for the road trip based on his experience with the vehicle and its practicality for filming: "I remember thinking, it's a road trip, what vehicle are you going to put them in? And [the] VW bus just seems logical, just because you have these high ceilings and these clean sight lines where you can put the camera. In the front windshield looking back and seeing everybody." Five VW Microbuses were used for the family car as some were modified for different filming | 78,832 | wow-train |
How do you do beadwork? It seems to be a complicated process. | Beadwork
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them with a sewing needle or beading needle and thread or thin wire, or sewing them to cloth. Beads come in a variety of materials, shapes and sizes. Beads are used to create jewelry or other articles of personal adornment; they are also used in wall hangings and sculpture and many other artworks.
Beadwork techniques are broadly divided into loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, bead knitting, | .
How can such a complicated and tedious process be always interested in shooting travel documentaries? Smith gave his own answer: “Only do it if you are 100% passionate about your subject matter and that it will fuel you as well during the process."
Key figures.
- Burton Holmes was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Each summer for over fifty years Holmes would travel the world and then tour American auditoriums in the winter; during the 1945- | 78,833 | wow-train |
The Grateful Dead are amazing! Do you enjoy their music?
I love them, one of my favourite rock bands. They were actually formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
1965! That is forever ago! Do they still perform? | distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band was ranked 57th by "Rolling Stone" magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977, performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums | Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel, and psychedelic rock; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams; and for its devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists". These various influences were | 78,834 | wow-train |
My uncle was a truck driver. Most people don't realize it, but it's a pretty tough life.
I would think it would be neat because you get to see the entire country.
That part would be cool. The worst part would be the long days. Even with the regular breaks they have to take, they spend most of the time driving.t
I guess that is true. I know my legs cramp up after just a couple of hours of driving. | land, typically to and from manufacturing plants, retail and distribution centers. Truck drivers are also responsible for inspecting all their vehicles for mechanical items or issues relating to safe operation. Others, such as driver/sales workers, are also responsible for sales, completing additional services such as cleaning, preparation and entertaining (such as cooking and making hot drinks) and customer service.
Types.
There are three major types of truck driver employment:
- Owner-operators (also known as O/Os, or | "Then I'd go to school and find two or three people that liked the same band and they would be my best friend. Now it's like the whole school is your best friend. How is the listening experience special? I think that's why vinyl is making such a comeback, because you don't get mass marketing. You actually have to take the record out, put it on a record player and listen to it." "Coalizione del Volere" was released as The Seldon Plan's first vinyl | 78,835 | wow-train |
Hi! Someone just gave me a book about the Orc, but I haven't read it yet.
well it is based on a fictional humanoid creature that is part of a fantasy race akin to goblins
That sounds awesome! I don't know why my friend gave me the book, but I think I will find it pretty interesting!
yes! the overall concept of orcs draws on a variety of pre-existing mythology, the main conception of the creatures stems from the fantasy writings, of JRR Tolkien
I love mythology! And I really love Tolkien - I had no idea that Orcs were based on those books!
in Tolkien's works, orcs are a brutish, aggressive, repulsive and generally malevolent species
So they're not really fun to be around! LOL But it sounds like they fit in quite nicely in fantasy books!
they are, the concept of orcs has been subsequently been adapted and importded into other works of fantasy fiction as well as role playing
So they are part of some role playing games? | generally serving an evil power. Tolkien's concept of orcs has subsequently been adapted and imported into other works of fantasy fiction as well as role-playing and strategy games (such as "Dungeons & Dragons", "Warhammer", and "Warcraft"), broadening the recognition of the creatures in popular culture.
Earlier references to creatures etymologically or conceptually similar to orcs can be found in Anglo-Saxon sources; including "Beowulf" and 16th-century Italian folk tales, in particular those of Giambattista Basile. | Corgan told "Spin" later that year, "You know, I gave them a year and a half to prepare for this record... I'm surrounded by these people who I care about very much, yet they continue to keep failing me." Corgan explained that he began to take the actions of others personally; he said, "If you really think about it, of course, someone doesn't do the job because they're lazy, or they don't think it's important. But I took it | 78,836 | wow-train |
I like to swim although I am not super fast, do you swim at all?
I just learnet that swimming relies on the natural buoyancy of the human body?
That makes sense, I was always amazed that we can float, I weigh 190 pounds but I still float, that is so odd to me
Yes, I human can learn to swim within weeks of been born
That is sort of a surprise, babies cannot even walk for a long time after that. That is very interesting! | Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both. Humans can hold their breath underwater and undertake rudimentary locomotive swimming within weeks of birth, as a survival response.
Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities, and in some countries, swimming lessons are a compulsory part of the educational curriculum. As a formalized sport, swimming features in a range of | recalled that she used to "go to the swim club on the Upper West Side and go swimming and walk from there to the recording studio. It was impossible for me to reach there at morning." Rodgers recalled that Madonna was a real hard worker and incredibly tenacious. He commented: "I am always amazed by Madonna's incredible judgement when it comes to making pop records. I've never seen anyone do it better, and that's the truth. When we did that album, it was the perfect union | 78,837 | wow-train |
HI, I am interested in visiting Chicago soon, do you have any suggestions about places to go for fun? | (CMAP) (a metropolitan planning organization).
Definitions.
Definitions Metropolitan statistical area.
The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area was originally designated by the United States Census Bureau in 1950. It comprised the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and Will, along with Lake County in Indiana. As surrounding counties saw an increase in their population densities and the number of their residents employed within Cook County, they met Census criteria to be added to the MSA. The Chicago MSA, now defined as the Chicago | go and find the books that will open their minds and bring them into wonderful imaginary places. That sense of excitement and joy about books I want every child to have, and not all children do get that". She is in favour of modern media techniques, commenting: "Texting is a form of writing as well. If we get too uptight in pushing books at children it will have a negative effect. We have to make them interested in books and to realise they can get enjoyment, fun and pleasure from | 78,838 | wow-train |
I love armadillos, I use to have a stuffed animal that was one when I lived in Texas.
me too, rmadillos are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata
That is interesting, do you know a lot about armadillos? | Armadillo
Armadillos (from Spanish "little armoured one") are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only surviving families in the order, which is part of the superorder Xenarthra, along with the anteaters and sloths. Nine extinct genera and 21 extant species of armadillo have been described, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armour. All species are native to the Americas, where they inhabit a variety of different environments.
Armadillos are characterized by a | Cingulata
Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra, is an order of armored New World placental mammals. Dasypodids and chlamyphorids, the armadillos, are the only surviving families in the order. Two groups of cingulates much larger than extant armadillos (maximum body mass of 45 kg (100 lb) in the case of the giant armadillo) existed until recently: pampatheriids, which reached weights of up to 200 kg (440 lb) and chlamyphorid glyptodonts, which attained masses of 2,000 kg (4,400 | 78,839 | wow-train |
im looking at building a casino, with hotels, restaurants and a retail shoping center
ooo when did casinos start being developed?
in the early 1900s. some casinos are known for hosting living entertainment events suchs as boxing, stand-up, concerts
nice. what other coool fact can you tell me about casinos?
in the 19th century, the term casino came to include other buildings where pleasurable activities took place, such as edifices
oh wow i didnt know that. where are a lot of casinos located? | Casino
A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. The industry that deals in casinos is called the gaming industry. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions. There is much debate over whether the social and economic consequences of casino gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment events, such as stand-up comedy, concerts, and sporting events. | Grand Casinos
Grand Casinos () was a casino operator, co-founded by poker player Lyle Berman and Dave Anderson, Founder of Famous Dave's BBQ Restaurants, that started out managing several casinos in Minnesota in 1990.
The company ceased to exist when it was purchased by Hilton Hotels which then merged it with its other gaming properties to form Park Place Entertainment in 1998.
History.
Grand Casinos owned a total of 8 casinos in 1995.
On December 19, 1995, made a major equity investment | 78,840 | wow-train |
Do you enjoy the color purple? It is a cross between red and blue?
I love purple. I hear that purple is supposed to be the color for power.
Purple can be combined with pink to depict femininity and eroticism
Wow. I think that might be a bit much. Do you know about feminism? | Feminist movements and ideologies
A variety of movements of feminist ideology have developed over the years. They vary in goals, strategies, and affiliations. They often overlap, and some feminists identify themselves with several branches of feminist thought.
Groupings.
Judith Lorber distinguishes between three broad kinds of feminist discourses: "gender reform feminisms", "gender resistant feminisms", and "gender revolution feminisms". In her typology, "gender reform feminisms" are rooted in the political philosophy of liberalism with its emphasis on individual | to red-violet, is described as one of the five psychological primary colors along with red, yellow, green, and blue, some people began to think of lavender as being somewhat more pinkish color. This color can be described as lavender pink or "pale pinkish-purple" when purple is defined as equivalent to "red-violet" as artists do.
This tone of lavender, displayed at right, is the color designated as "lavender" (color #74) in the list of Crayola crayon | 78,841 | wow-train |
Onions are by far my favorite vegetable.
same, very good on everything
It is really closely related to the shallot and garlic.
oh those are very good too | Onion
The onion ("Allium cepa" L., from Latin "cepa" "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus "Allium". Its close relatives include the garlic, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.
This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion ("Allium fistulosum"), the tree onion ( | bulb. These leaves are used as a vegetable; they are eaten either raw or cooked. The leaves are often chopped into other dishes, in the manner of onions or garlic.
Etymology.
The words "scallion" and "shallot" are related and can be traced back to the Greek "ασκολόνιον" ('askolonion') as described by the Greek writer Theophrastus. This name, in turn, seems to originate from the name of the ancient Canaan city of Ashkelon. The plant itself came from farther | 78,842 | wow-train |
I like to sleep at least 10 hours a night - I think my internal circadian clock is damaged LOL
I wish I could sleep 10 hours a night, I am lucky if I get 6 hours with 2 small children...what is the recommend amount of sleep? | and non-REM sleep. Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. A well-known feature of sleep is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.
During sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these | Dupre best known from the Eliot Spitzer scandal.
In a 2013 interview, Paul said he is getting three hours of sleep a day due to the amount of work he has to do in the variety of business ventures he has a part in. Describing his daily schedule, he said that he works with all of his companies during the day and records music during the night, stating that "I feel like if I'm not working, then I'm losing and I'm not really giving my life what I should | 78,843 | wow-train |
So...do you like Ice Hockey? | central and eastern Europe, the Nordic countries, Russia and the United States. Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada. In addition, ice hockey is the most popular winter sport in Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the highest level for men's ice hockey and the strongest professional ice hockey league in the world. The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) is the highest league in | have been known to call it anyway as an act of vengeance against players they do not like, even verbally taunting the players as they do so.
Differences from ice hockey Penalty Shot.
If one of the players receives three penalties, he or she will be taken out of the game. If a team receives seven penalties it results in a penalty shot for the opposing team. The player who was on the ice while the penalty was taking place will be able to take this shot.
Differences from ice hockey The | 78,844 | wow-train |
Chevrolet, or Chevy, are a great American car manufacturer.
Chevrolet is a great company, love their cars
The founder of the compant is named William C Durant.
Oh really when did he do this?
He founded the company way back in 1911!
Oh wow so during the era of the car boom.
Yep! It was founded as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
Doesnt seem very old but it is for cars if you think about it. | Chevrolet
Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting | Chevrolet Series C Classic Six
The Chevrolet Series C Classic Six is the first automobile produced by American car manufacturer Chevrolet. It is one of the few Chevrolets made while record-setting Buick race car driver Louis Chevrolet was with the company. This Brass Era Chevy was much larger, more powerful, more stylized and therefore more expensive than the cars that would ultimately replace it. Louis Chevrolet loved it, but William Durant had a cheaper car in mind.
The first Chevrolet.
The 1913-14 Chevrolet Type C | 78,845 | wow-train |
The thought of eating meat that is "sliced across the muscle fibers" grosses me out, but I love steak anyway!
I also enjoy a good steak on occasion! How do you like your steak cooked?
I know they can be pan-fried or broiled, but I love them on the grill. I like rare, too, which bothers some of my family members. You?
I agree that rare tastes better, but I get nervous about eating under-cooked food. I prefer the filet mignon, you? | -shaped cuts of beef. The tenderloin is sometimes sold whole. When sliced along the short dimension, creating roughly round cuts, and tube cuts, the cuts (fillets) from the small forward end are considered to be filet mignon. Those from the center are tournedos; however, some butchers in the United States label all types of tenderloin steaks "filet mignon". In fact, the shape of the true filet mignon may be a hindrance when cooking, so most restaurants sell steaks from the wider end of the | List of steak dishes
This is a list of steak dishes. Steak is generally a cut of beef sliced perpendicular to the muscle fibers, or of fish cut perpendicular to the spine. Meat steaks are usually grilled, pan-fried, or broiled, while fish steaks may also be baked.
Meat cooked in sauce, such as steak and kidney pie, or minced meat formed into a steak shape, such as Salisbury steak and hamburger steak may also be referred to as steak.
Beef.
Beefsteak is | 78,846 | wow-train |
Blue is my favorite color.
Small world! I think blue one of the 3 true colors?
It is one of three primary colors.
I've heard that you can only see blue if it's between certain wave lengths. | Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. | creating the following tones. Brown can also be made if multiple paint colours are added to each other.
Colors with Shades and Tints of that Hue Cyan.
Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum, i.e., between approximately 490 and 520 nm. It is considered one of the main subtractive primary colors. Cyan is sometimes considered green or blue because of the way we see it.
Colors with Shades and Tints of that Hue Green.
Green is a color, | 78,847 | wow-train |
Vermont sounds pretty cool! Whats it like to live there?
I;ve never lived there, but it must be nice since is was ranked as the safest state in the country in 2016.
Wow thats pretty cool, would you ever consider living there? Is it in the USA?
Yes, I think I would like to live there. Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
Nice! Ive always wanted to visit new england, is the captial of that state boston?
No, Bostonis in Massachusetts, the capital of Vermont is Montpelier.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge as i from the UK! | city to be the most populous city in a state. As of 2015, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. In crime statistics, it was ranked since 2016 as the safest state in the country.
For some 12,000 years indigenous peoples inhabited this area. The historic, competitive tribes known as the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter.
During the 17th century French colonists claimed the territory as part of France's | off-time chugs [...] You also get bands like Scale the Summit [who are referred to as] a djent band [when] 80% of their stuff sounds like clean channel, and it's all beautiful and pretty, you know [...] In that way, I think it's cool because it groups really cool bands together [...] We are surrounded by a lot of bands that I respect, but at the same time, I don't think people know what djent is either [... | 78,848 | wow-train |
My sister works in finance. She really enjoys it, but to me, it sounds boring.
Yes, it sounds boring to me too! my sister is actually an accountant, so i feel the same. I'd rather be some kind of writer, like Matt Groening from The Simpsons
I'm not even that creative. I know there is money to be made in finance, but I just don't think I could commit to it.
I knwo that there are different areas of finance, like public and corporate, which sound lucrative but boring. Iw ould rather learn more about personal finance, I think that would be useful.
That would definitely be useful. I could use some help with that, as my finances aren't that great haha | Finance
Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the art of money management. Participants in the market aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be split into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.
Areas of finance.
Areas of finance Personal finance.
Matters | this song is about me basically saying that just because all of those things are there [it] doesn't mean that there is not sort of the same person underneath. And then, also that these veils, they are really just protecting me from the thing that I held the most sacred, which is my creativity ... My Aura is the way that I deal with my insanity and I feel quite insane, so this song sounds very insane ... Everyone thinks that everything I do is a statement but some times I'm | 78,849 | wow-train |
One of my favorite foods is tacos, they are pretty easy to make. What do you think about tacos?
they are very delicious. what type of cuisine are tacos?
Tacos are generally associated as a Mexican dish. The tortilla is usually made of corn or wheat.
i see, do tacos have a place or time of origin? | precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. According to the Real Academia Española, publisher of "Diccionario de la Lengua Española", the word "taco" describes a typical Mexican dish of a maize tortilla folded around food. This meaning of the Spanish word "taco" is a Mexican innovation, but in other dialects "taco" is used to mean "wedge; wad, plug; billiard cue; blowpipe; ramrod; short, stocky person; [or] short, | simply is a folded tortilla with some kind of filling. Mexican street taco fillings vary from one region to another. Most tacos are made with corn tortillas, except in the very north of the country where wheat flour tortillas dominate. The tortillas used in Mexican tacos are soft, although the entire taco can be fried, which is called “dorado” (lit. golden). The taco has its origins in the pre Hispanic period, when other foods were eaten with tortillas, used as a scoop. The modern taco | 78,850 | wow-train |
I like the fact that the Toyota Prius is electric but I don't know how practical that is.
Electric vehicles like the Prius use regenerative brakes, which means whenever you brake you are charging your car! This saves you from having to waste time charging your car in the future.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I have never driven and electric car, have you? | Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles
Government incentives for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have been established by several national governments and local authorities around the world as to support the adoption of plug-in electric vehicle. These policy driven incentives main include purchase rebates, tax exemptions and tax credits, and additional perks that range from access to bus lanes to waivers on fees (charging, parking, tolls, etc.). The amount of the financial incentives usually depends on battery size and the vehicle all-electric | speed of the adoption of electric vehicles, essentially turning the current perceived glut of relatively cheap fission-electricity into an asset, as demand for electric vehicle recharging stations becomes more and more commonplace.
Due to France's very low-carbon power electricity grid, the carbon dioxide emissions from charging an electric car from the French electricity grid are 12 g per km traveled.
This compares favourably to the direct emissions of one of the most successful hybrid electric vehicles, the Toyota Prius, which produces carbon dioxide emissions at | 78,851 | wow-train |
The color blue is everywhere! Its the color of the sky and the color of water! What would we do without the color blue?
I love it. It's one of the three primary colors of pigments that are the building blocks for all color.
Yes! There's no purple without blue and no green without blue too!
I find it crazy the human eye can only see blue with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Any other wavelength and you can't see it.
That seems like a very narrow range? Are other colors like this?
I'd imagine all of them. Blue is a crazy color. Do you know blue are are not really blue, a optical effect called Tyndall scattering explains blue eyes.
Can you tell me more about that? I have blue eyes and I love them on other people because they are somewhat rare
They appear blue due to the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.
Interesting, Do you know how rare blue eyes really are? I dont really have a number reference | An optical effect called Tyndall scattering explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.
Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used | RYB color model
RYB (an abbreviation of red–yellow–blue) denotes the use of red, yellow, and blue pigments as primary colors in art and design, particularly painting.
Color wheel.
RYB (red–yellow–blue) make up the primary color triad in a standard artist's color wheel. The secondary colors purple–orange–green (sometimes called violet–orange–green) make up another triad. Triads are formed by three equidistant colors on a particular color wheel. Other | 78,852 | wow-train |
Rock music is one of my favorite genres of music
What do you like the most about it above other genres of music? | Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues | Don’t believe in heights. It’s really about that. Do what you love while you’re here because nothing lasts forever.”
In addition, the BRC began to combat racial stereotypes through accepting the “total spectrum” of black music. During this time, society essentially assigned certain genres of music to white people, and other genres black people. Furthermore, society decided "what constitutes 'real' rock music, including who is authorized to play that music and who is authorized to listen to and talk about | 78,853 | wow-train |
i enjoy fly fishing. what about you?
I enjoy fishing in general, but have never been fly fishing. Isn't it hard? | Fly fishing
Fly fishing is an angling method that uses a light-weight lure -- called an artificial fly -- to catch fish. The fly is cast using a fly rod, reel, and specialized weighted line. The light weight requires casting techniques significantly different from other forms of casting. The flies may resemble natural invertebrates, baitfish, or other food organisms.
Fly fishing can be done in fresh or salt water. North Americans usually distinguish freshwater fishing between cold-water species (trout, salmon, steelhead) | the black demographic. And do you really think that this is going to fly?" Howard even personally called Fox and told them, "'You need to take the kissing out, because this is going to stop, shut down the show."
In response to the controversy surrounding his casting and whether he should have been excluded from the project because of his alleged past, Howard said "I hope that nothing will take away from the truly special project we all worked so hard on. I hope people enjoy | 78,854 | wow-train |
Confession time! I'm a HUGE cat person. Dogs get the credit for this, but cats are just as loyal and playful as dogs.
I am a dog person so you have to convince me about cats ;)
Well to start, how often do any dogs you know hunt mice or other "vermin" around your house? I know the corgi I used to have wouldn't. All she was good for was sass.
I do admit I like that domestic cats still have their wild instinct in them and dogs are become less of a "wolf"
I just appreciate cat behaviors in general, from their body language, to their playing styles, and their urine marking. Actually, forget what I said about their urine marking. That's no fun at all.
:) but why are cats less domesticated than dogs? | Domestication of animals
The domestication of animals is the mutual relationship between animals and the humans who have influence on their care and reproduction. Charles Darwin recognized a small number of traits that made domesticated species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection where traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits. There is a genetic difference between domestic and wild populations. There is | out all sorts of important things such as friendship stronger than prejudice and acceptance of difference.
Synopsis.
Hairies are mostly about feelings and Scaries are mostly about thinking. Hairies are like playful dogs and Scaries are like playful cats. (Or vice versa.) None of these differences get in their way of being close neighbours. But if you really want to know Hairies and Scaries all you have to do is meet Willow and Constance. They’re two regular kids in an irregular world. Willow's a Hairy boy | 78,855 | wow-train |
Every tuesday when I get off work I do yoga it is so relaxing.
Do you know that, in some Slavic languages the word Tuesday means ""the second"".?
No I actually didn't know that why is it referred to as the second I thought that was the third day?
Ii depends on the context.
What activities do you participate on Tuesdays?
Tuesday for me is mostly to go to work and stay in with the family, sometimes i do an hour of walking outside.
I walk also but on Friday's besides doing yoga I also have a family and have kids activities to do this summer.
Yoga for me is fascinating because of the broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
I am christian but I love all people of different religious how interesting is Buddhism? | Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and "dharma", or way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as "Sanātana Dharma", "the eternal tradition", or the "eternal way", beyond human history. Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder. This "Hindu synthesis" started to | his hand around my shoulder, and he said "I think we are together because we're both similar, like we're both really messed up" and I thought it was the saddest thing I'd ever heard. And I said, "I'm not sad, I didn't know that's why you thought you were relating to me on that level, I'm actually doing pretty good". And he was upset, and that's when I wrote the song. I thought, I had to do so | 78,856 | wow-train |
Is Justin Bieber overrated or what?
He was born in Canada, they can't all be overrated.
lol really? So that means you like him... He is just a kid that got lucky and now is a mess. | Hot 100. Bieber released his first studio album, "My World 2.0", in 2010. It debuted at number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the US, and contained his single "Baby", which debuted at number five on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and sold 12 million units.
Following his debut album and promotional tours, he released his 3D biopic-concert film "" and his second studio album, "Under the Mistletoe" (2011), which debuted at number | as they would normally. There's so much to explore with this kid as he comes into adolescence and what it would be like if he were gay...which he probably is.'"
Indelicato has said about Justin, "My fan mail is mostly kids, especially kids that don't really fit in and people don't really understand them. They go, 'Thank you, because you're helping me to be understood by my peers,' and anybody else who doesn't understand them." He has | 78,857 | wow-train |
Hi, when was the last time you been on a picnic? | Picnic
A picnic is a meal taken outdoors ("al fresco") as part of an excursion – ideally in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theatre performance, and usually in summer.
Picnics are usually meant for the late mornings or midday breakfasts, but could also be held as a luncheonette or a dinner event.
Descriptions of picnics show that the idea of a | minutes. I played it for Elaine and I said, 'Can I write this? Do you think this is too weird?'
I was sitting at a picnic table when I wrote it, maybe around this time last year. I have to give the nod to Sympathy for the Devil, because I came to the conclusion that probably Mr. Bellows was the devil.
(The song ends with elderly people talking about their lives when a bittersweet violin plays underneath.) I told Rick, a guy who works | 78,858 | wow-train |
My parents got divorced when I was really young. | spouses informally stop cohabiting). Reasons for divorce vary, from sexual incompatibility or lack of independence for one or both spouses to a personality clash.
The only countries that do not allow divorce are the Philippines, the Vatican City and the British Crown Dependency of Sark. In the Philippines, divorce for non-Muslim Filipinos is not legal unless the husband or wife is an alien and satisfies certain conditions. The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical state, which has no procedure for divorce. Countries that have relatively recently legalized divorce | , “My parents got divorced when I was young, and my mother married someone who had four children. And we moved to the other side of the country, albeit not to Virginia. And I think that that being thrown together, being pulled out of a family and put into a family has always been very interesting to me. … It's so complicated. It's so complicated to figure out who you're going to spend Christmas with.” Noting that many authors’ first novels are based on their own | 78,859 | wow-train |
Dr Pepper is my favorite soda. I love its unique flavor!
I used to really love dr. pepper too! I am currently hooked on mt. dew. | Dr. Pepper" was first used commercially in 1885. It was introduced nationally in the United States at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition as a new kind of soda pop, made with 23 flavors. Its introduction in 1885 preceded the introduction of Coca-Cola by one year.
It was formulated by Brooklyn-born pharmacist Charles Alderton in Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas. To test his new drink, he first offered it to store owner Wade Morrison, who also found it to his liking. Patrons | Cherry Cola
- Diet Cola
- Creme Soda
- Diet Creme Soda
- Dr. Shasta (similar in flavor to Dr. Pepper)
- Diet Dr. Shasta
- Fiesta Punch
- Ginger Ale
- Diet Ginger Ale
- Grape
- Diet Grape
- Grapefruit Zazz
- Diet Grapefruit
- Kiwi Strawberry
- Lemon Lime Twist
- Diet Lemon Lime Twist
- Mountain Rush (similar in flavor to Mountain Dew)
- Orange
- Diet Orange
- Pineapple
- Pineapple | 78,860 | wow-train |
I like reddit, it's an american social news aggregation site. Do you go on reddit?
I love to browse reddit! I especially like the DIY reddit! WHat is your favorite?
I like the documentaries subreddit. The ones with upvotes that put them to the top of the subreddit are usually good
Yeah, I agree. How long has reddit been around?
I believe since 2005. It's such a great place to submit all sorts of content, such as links, text posts, and images
Wow! That is a lot older than I expected! How does reddit even stay in business since you don't have to pay to have an account?
They have advertisements and some people pay for special features. The administrators spend a lot of resources on moderating the site so it isn't cheap.
Oh, I guess I should have known advertisements were the source of revenue. What special features are offered for a paid account? | Reddit
Reddit (, stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits", which cover a variety of topics including news, science, movies, video games, music, books, fitness, food, and image-sharing. Submissions | songwriter Gerald Casale corroborated this approach in an interview with BAM magazine in 1979. "A guitar can only do what a guitar does. It's like only one tiny piece of a synthesizer. On this album, we did much more with
the guitars, too. Sometimes you don't know that they're guitars."
However, more recently, Casale has been critical of the sound of the album, particularly in a Reddit chat on June, 25th, 2013. "I love the songs but I loathe | 78,861 | wow-train |
I love ice cream! I really wish I had some right now
It's usually made with cream and other flavorings. I work at a dairy plant!
That sounds like a sweet job. Ha ha ha. I wonder how long ago people began making/eating ice cream
For about as long as we have had refrigeration. It is made from frozen sweetened cream and milk.
I see, interesting. Do you have a favorite flavor? Mine is vanilla, even thought that is very vanilla :P | Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus "Vanilla", primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla ("V. planifolia"). The word "vanilla", derived from , the diminutive of the Spanish word ( itself meaning a sheath or a pod), is translated simply as "little pod". Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called "tlīlxochitl" by the Aztecs. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and | Loveholic
5. Sorry For Being Late - Ha Dong-kyun
6. First Snow's Love - Kang Sung-min
7. Loving U - ICE CREAM
8. The Day We Broke Up - Nana
9. What Can We Do? - A Hyun
10. Love... Irrepressible Tears (Piano ver.)
11. I Feel Sad, but Goodbye (Inst.)
12. Love... Irrepressible Tars (Inst.)
13. Echo (Inst.)
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I live in a rural area, i love being away from people, if its not urban its always considered rural in my book.
What is the proper definition of "Rural" anyhow?
Well a rural area is basically just a geographic area that is located outside of towns and cities.
There's no population density requirements at all? I'm pretty sure I live in a rural area myself!~ | Rural area
In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines the word "rural" as encompassing "...all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered rural."
Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas are commonly rural, as are other types of areas such as forest. | one of the first towns in the country.
It has an approximate area of shared in 9 companies and 20 urban neighborhoods and villas. Some of them still have a purely agricultural-rural character, while others are more urbanized.
Is located away from Asunción, between the urbanized cities of the Central Department. To get there you should take the Route 3 "General Elizardo Aquino". Because of the explosive growth rate and its high population density, as well as a lack of infrastructure, it is a challenge | 78,863 | wow-train |
Hi there I like going to the Broadway theatre atleast once a month!
Ah yes the Bradway Theatre is my favorite, In fact the Theater District is quite a popular tourist attraction in the area New York City.
I can see why, it is very high quality. Do you know if any famous actors from it? | Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, also known simply as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, for the 2018–2019 | album if they want. In truth, I hope it will come to more than that. There really are dozens of songs. And they’re really good. So we’ll see."
Nicks explained her reluctance to record another album with Fleetwood Mac. "Is it possible that Fleetwood Mac might do another record? I can never tell you yes or no, because I don't know. I honestly don't know... It's like, do you want to take a chance of going in and setting up | 78,864 | wow-train |
Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
What's it most known for?
Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, but the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States
What's the population, do you know? | located. Nevada's capital is Carson City.
Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on the state flag); as the "Sagebrush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the "Sage-hen State".
Nevada is largely desert and semi | Nevada
Nevada () is a state in the Western United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 32nd most populous, but the 9th least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the state's four largest incorporated cities are | 78,865 | wow-train |
I am a big chocolate fan. Do you know much about the history of chocolate?
I love chocolate so much. It was said they had chocolate beverages that dated back to 1900 BCE in Mexico.
Really? That is a long time. My favorite chocolate is dark chocolate. Do you know any benefits with dark chocolate? | seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor. After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to produce cacao nibs, which are then ground to cocoa mass, unadulterated chocolate in rough form. Once the cocoa mass is liquefied by heating, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may be cooled and processed into its two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Baking chocolate, also called bitter chocolate, contains cocoa solids | my social skills."
Speaking about her homeland, Brown told Wish magazine in 2010 that she misses "the moving air that you feel on your face when you're at the beach [in Sydney]. If I could borrow that and swish it around my apartment, I would. And I love a good Mint Slice," referring to an Australian chocolate biscuit. Brown said her favorite thing about New York "is that at the beginning of the week you just don't know how your week is going to | 78,866 | wow-train |
Do like weightlifting? I wish I did more competition moves like the clean and jerk.
Weight training is something ive gotten more heavily into recently while also on a dietary weightloss regimen even tho they are counter productive to each other
Interesting. Are you trying to lose weight? Weight training is more common to developing strength and size of skeletal muscles.
Im on a pretty hard calorie count so i dont need to work out so instead of more fat burning exercises for maximum weightloss i just do strength training to gain muscle and lose extra weight | Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's musculature for aesthetic purposes. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive bodybuilding, bodybuilders appear in lineups and perform specified poses (and later individual posing routines) for a panel of judges who rank the competitors based on criteria such as symmetry, muscularity, and conditioning. Bodybuilders prepare for competitions through the elimination of nonessential body fat, enhanced at the last stage by a combination of extracellular dehydration and carbohydrate | Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg
These are the results of the Men's Super-Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (– +110 kg) at the 1980 Olympic Weightlifting competition in Moscow. A total of twelve men competed in this event, limited to competitors with a body weight of 110 kilograms or more.
Each weightlifter had three attempts for both the snatch and clean and jerk lifting methods. The total of the best successful lift of each method was used to determine the final rankings and medal winners | 78,867 | wow-train |
Love going to the library. It's such a great source of information and other resources.
Yeah it can be fun! I haven't went in a while. What do you like to rent?
Well I really like to read science fiction, but the library has so many other things too like newspapers and even films!
Neat! Yes the library is great for movies! It is great to be able to do so free of charge! | classical Greece in the 5th century BC. In the 6th century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of Constantinople and Alexandria.
A library is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual. Public and institutional collections and services may be intended for use by people who choose not to—or cannot afford to—purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected | Talking about Audrey and Claudia's relationship, Nicholls said, "Yes, she's a little bit like the wicked witch, isn't she? It's great fun. In my head, Claudia is that friend you know is always going to be a pain. She's the one who says the wrong thing, is always trying to out do you and has a habit of saying really horrid things even though she thinks they're a joke. But I think in a funny way they really do get on. She | 78,868 | wow-train |
hi, I love drawing in my spare time, which is a form of visual art.
Drawing is always fun, so many subjects to draw!
I agree, I usually use graphite pencils, pen and ink to draw.
What types of things do you like to draw?
I use my drawing instrument to draw houses and trees mostly!
Do you draw from memory or do you go outside and draw them in front of you? | stylus- or finger-to-touchpad, or in some cases, a mouse. There are many digital art programs and devices.
A drawing instrument releases a small amount of material onto a surface, leaving a visible mark. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means | Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium. Instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). Digital drawing is the act of using a computer to draw. Common methods of digital drawing include a stylus or finger on a touchscreen device, | 78,869 | wow-train |
Have you noticed the make-up video trends teaching you how to apply cosmetics to enhance your appearance?
I am not sure about that. But I can see how that might be a trend. | and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted | was meeting my grandfather. It might be the last time I see him. I told him that I would never be able to thank him enough. I thanked him for taking me out for a walk when I was a child, for teaching me how to fold origami and make shadow pictures, and for telling me stories. I couldn't stop saying thank you.
Both A-sides were featured in commercials for Kose cosmetics Sekkisei Supreme and Sekkisei, respectively, starring Nanako Matsushima. When asked about the use of | 78,870 | wow-train |
I really love heavy metal music. Do you know much about it? | Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
In 1968, three of the genre's | you off. So that song, really, is about how much I still love making music, but also how much I just hate the business side, the numbers side, the people in the suits who try to run stuff, and having to deal with them and having to learn how to talk to them. And, you know, it's frustrating sometimes, but it is what it is. And luckily, we got a great song out of it, and we were able to really paint something really cool | 78,871 | wow-train |
have ever participated with human society
I have donated to the SPCA. They are aimed at preventing cruelty to animals.
please tell me more about spca | NSPCA
National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), also known as the National Council of SPCAs, is the largest and oldest animal welfare organisation in South Africa. The NSPCA handles all matters relating to animal cruelty involving all animal species and is a registered Non-Profit Organisation registered with the Department of Social Development.
The NSPCA is referred to as "NDBV" in Afrikaans (one of the 11 official languages in South Africa) and is also known as Nasionale Raad van Dierebeskermingsverenigings ( | range of animal welfare campaigns. It has launched public education campaigns about the humane treatment of animals, and has encouraged people to change their behaviour towards animals. SPCA has also run politically motivated campaigns aimed at promoting law changes or questioning the legality of certain practices. A 2007 Reader's Digest ranked the SPCA as the second most trusted charity, behind the Cancer Society.
History.
The New Zealand SPCA was formed by settlers from England in 1882, inspired by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England | 78,872 | wow-train |
Hi there! I'm considering changing my hair colour - I'm naturally blonde but I'm bored of it.
I'm naturally blonde also! What color were you thinking of? I'm back to blonde after doing fuschia, fire engine red, purple, burgundy, caramel, chocolate brown, black...lol | Shades of red
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Notable tints of red.
Notable tints of red Pink.
At | to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
- "Goodbye, kid. Hurry back."
- "Goodnight my kitten."
- "Remember, honey, don’t forget what I told you. Put in my coffin a deck of cards, a mashie niblick, and a pretty blonde."
- "No, you certainly can't."
- "I'm bored with it all." | 78,873 | wow-train |
I love to run. It's my favorite form or terrestrial locomotion.
i love to run early in the mornings!
Yes. It's so good for strong legs. There is a spring-mass mechanics that uses the kinetic energy to propel you forwards. How far do you run?
I try to get in 5 miles a week but sometimes it can be hard.
Yeah. I just jog, but I'm currently training for a marathon. People usually generically call it "running" but it can mean anything from jogging to sprinting.
Wow that is really cool! The only think I know is it gives you a good workout.
Yes definitely. I jogged for 25 km yesterday. People usually jog over long distances and is a great endurance aerobic exercise.
I have seen pictures of runners legs after 5Ks and it looks pretty crazy. | between 632 BCE and 1171 BCE, while the first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776 BCE. Running has been described as the world's most accessible sport.
History.
It is thought that human running evolved at least four and a half million years ago out of the ability of the ape-like Australopithecus, an early ancestor of humans, to walk upright on two legs.
Early humans most likely developed into endurance runners from the practice of persistence hunting of animals, the activity of following and chasing until | a fun, if I ever have the time to run it. [...] I'll be plucking out nasties and their stories to creep out my friends for a long time. I love the marriage of narrative and mechanical information. It's easy to ignore if you just want to have new stat blocks, but it's hard not to get sucked in and read all of it".
For "Polygon", Charlie Hall wrote that "most of the information is great fodder for dungeon masters. How do | 78,874 | wow-train |
i like to go gambling somtimes how about you?
Yes I love to wager money for "the stakes" of different games. What games do you play?
Yeah it is a lot of fun!
I like it because the outcomes happens right away. Like with the roulette wheels, or a horse racing. You know if you win or not!
Yeah you never know you could be a winner or a loser | frames are also common, allowing wagers on the outcome of a future sports contest or even an entire sports season.
The term "gaming" in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law. The two words are not mutually exclusive; "i.e.", a "gaming" company offers (legal) "gambling" activities to the public and may be regulated by one of many gaming control boards, for example, the Nevada Gaming Control Board. However, this distinction is | of people are tired of the screamo/I'm-not-okay thing. It's like, everyone's not okay, you know? Forget about it. Have fun. That's what you do with music -- you forget about your shit."
“Antidote was like our training wheels when we were learning how to play, but I consider the start of our band as being when we became Dirty Penny and recorded our album...There are a lot of haters...We’re labeled a cover band in Santa Cruz | 78,875 | wow-train |
Steak is such delicious meat, love some sliced filet
I know! Ribeye is a great cut of meat as well. | Steak
A steak () is a meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, potentially including a bone. Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and includes three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.
Steak is usually grilled, but can be pan | many parts of Japan, but also in local Japanese neighborhoods (colloquially called "Little Tokyos") in countries such as the United States and Canada.
Preparation.
The dish is usually made with thinly sliced beef, but some versions use pork, crab, chicken, lamb, duck, or lobster. Most often, ribeye steak is used, but less tender cuts, such as top sirloin, are also common. A more expensive meat, such as "wagyu", may also be used. It is | 78,876 | wow-train |
I love going to community theatres to watch some shows. | Spokane Civic Theatre
Spokane Civic Theatre is a nationally recognized non-profit theatre located in Spokane, Washington. Incorporated in 1947, the theatre is one of the oldest community theatres in the country. In recent years, the theatre has been brought to a level of excellence that has resulted in many awards. The theatre's mission is "to foster an enduring love for live theatre in every community member." Civic, as it is fondly called by the surrounding community, sets a high standard for theatre in the Spokane | perfectly, and to watch this crazy family get stuck in that format was really fun to me. Probably because I also love game shows so much."
- As another episode favorite, Lawrence named "The Love Letter." Stated Lawrence, "It was a great episode, a record-holder actually. I think Bubba writes a love letter for Vint, who is having some problems with Naomi. In the course of the 22-minute episode, everybody thinks that the love letter is meant for them. Mama thinks | 78,877 | wow-train |
I love the color yellow it is so bright and pretty.
Yes! it is! i like is in between green and orange on the spectrum of visible light, i love colors
It goes great with green especially in a garden, yellow sun flowers in a pretty green garden. | in the murals in Roman villas. In the early Christian church, yellow was the color associated with the Pope and the golden keys of the Kingdom, but was also associated with Judas Iscariot and was used to mark heretics. In the 20th century, Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear a yellow star. In China, bright yellow was the color of the Middle Kingdom, and could be worn only by the Emperor and his household; special guests were welcomed on a yellow carpet.
According to surveys | Yellow
Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 570590 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In the RGB color model, used to create colors on television and computer screens, yellow is a secondary color made by combining red and green at equal intensity. Carotenoids give the characteristic yellow color to autumn leaves, corn, canaries, daffodils, and lemons, as well | 78,878 | wow-train |
One of my favorite bands of all time is Creed. I could listen to them all day.
Creed was an American rock band
Do you know when the band was formed? | Creed (band)
Creed is an American rock band that formed in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida. For the majority of its existence, the band consisted of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips. Creed released two studio albums, "My Own Prison" in 1997 and "Human Clay" in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000. The band's third album, "Weathered", was released in 2001, with Tremonti handling bass guitar | Mark Tremonti
Mark Thomas Tremonti (born April 18, 1974) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge. He is a founding member of both bands, and has also collaborated with many other artists over the years. He formed his own band, Tremonti, in 2011, releasing the album "All I Was" in July 2012, followed by "Cauterize" in June 2015, "Dust" in April 2016 | 78,879 | wow-train |
It's amazing to me that in the US there is no national government oversight of animal shelters. It's left to the states to decide what, if any, regulation is applied.
I dont know a lot about animal shelters can you explain?
It's a place where stray, lost or abandoned animals are kept. Some are no-kill shelters, but others euthanize healthy animals if they can't get them adopted.
Does it cost to adopt one?
Usually. Some organizations give the pet to the adopter; others monitor the animal's future and care.
That is awesome!
You can even adopt online. There are a couple of sites with databases of pets kept by many animal shelters and rescue groups. You can search them for a pet to adopt.
I had no idea, do most large citys have a shelter? | still be considered a no-kill shelter.
Definition.
A no-kill or limited admit shelter is a shelter that saves healthy, treatable and rehabilitatable animals. As a benchmark, at least 90% of the animals entering the shelter are expected to be saved. The save rate must be based on all animals entering the shelter: "It does not matter if the animals are old, blind, deaf, missing limbs, or traumatized. All of these animals are worthy of our compassion, all of them | Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray | 78,880 | wow-train |
Have you ever worked in a factory? | Factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another.
Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified | a job as well. He worked a bleaching and dyeing factory.
Bright had little luck on his first weekend and says he "got abused by 500 workers" at this factory on Monday. He added, "You're obviously expected to bat in the top four, and if you don't get some runs or get some wickets, particularly if the side's not doing very well, the locals do tend to let you know very quickly that you've been the worst pro the club's ever had." | 78,881 | wow-train |
I wonder where the lore for leprechauns started.
I think they came from Irish folklore, not sure how it started though.
I can't remember what happens if you catch one.
The Irish Folklore Commission might be the best place to clarify that, they were set up back in 1935 so many years of collecting data!
Oh that sounds like an interesting place to work. I wonder what other Irish folklore is popular.
I'm not sure but there is also Scottish folklore. There is one specific famous author called Calum Iain Maclean that lived between 1915 and 1960.
What is the most well know Scottish folklore?
Not sure if it is the most well know but Kelpies are one of them. They are shape-shifting water spirits.
Oh those are the ones that lure people to water and then drown them right? | Kelpie
Kelpie, or water kelpie, is the Scots name given to a shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. It has usually been described as appearing as a horse, but is able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human, leading to its association with the Christian idea of Satan as alluded to by Robert Burns in his 1786 poem "Address to the Devil".
Almost every sizeable body of water in Scotland has an | ! I think it might be the car accident syndrome, where sometimes you don't WANT to look, but you always end up turning your head to see what happens. They are so unrealistic and usually quite graphic with their violence, that it becomes almost silly, and you start to laugh and wonder how is the next person going to die. Maybe everybody just likes a really good villain, and I think Jason is probably in the top five."
Campbell once played Benvolio in a production of Romeo and Juliet | 78,882 | wow-train |
Do you do any work with Upholstery?
Not personally, but I know someone who is an upholsterer. I thought of asking him if I could become an apprentice upholsterer, but haven't yet.
Do you think it pays well to do it as a career?
I would imagine so. Upholsterers are very talented. In London in the 18th century they often worked as interior decorators, dealing with the whole room.
Wow, so they did less work as time went on haha. Is anyone credited with starting the craft? | Upholstery
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word "upholstery" comes from the Middle English word "upholder", which referred to an artisan who held up their goods. The term is equally applicable to domestic, automobile, airplane and boat furniture, and can be applied to mattresses, particularly the upper layers, though these often differ significantly in design. A person who works with upholstery is called an "upholsterer". | enough of me. My love is just the same as it always was. Oh, how I did hate to leave you last Sunday evening. But I did not think this would happen. I thought we could take in the money and not have any trouble with it, but a man's fondest hopes are sometimes broken with trouble. We would not have been arrested but one of our horses gave out and we could not leave him [the rider] alone. I do not know what to write. Do the | 78,883 | wow-train |
Have you ever tried a food truck before?
I love food trucks and how it is a large truck that food is cooked and sold from.
I love them too. How big are they usually? | Food truck
A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food; others have on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch. Sandwiches, hamburgers, french fries, and other regional fast food fare is common. In recent years, associated with the pop-up restaurant phenomenon, food trucks offering gourmet cuisine and a variety of specialties and ethnic menus, have become particularly popular. Food trucks, along with portable food booths and food | a truck stop to delay them, so they just shopped at a big box store. Hodge Podge ended up at a car lot with other local food trucks. Midway into day 1, they got their first speed bump, disabling use of their trucks so Lime Truck cooked mussels on a portable burner and Hodge Podge sold high end sashimi with foie gras. Tyler put a stop to Day 1's late night sales because their truck stop was going to be in the morning. Then he shut them down again during the evening | 78,884 | wow-train |
I just bought myself a brand new honda civic!
Oh thats great. The honda civic is a line of cars manufactured from honda .
Neat. I wonder what year the Honda Civic first debuted
No information on that but the honda civic did originate from japan .
Ah, okay. I know Honda's are pretty popular cars. Any other neat tidbits you can tell me about them? | Honda Fit
The , also marketed as the , is a five-door, front-engine, front-wheel drive B-segment supermini manufactured and marketed by Honda since 2001 and now in its third generation. Marketed worldwide and manufactured at ten plants in eight countries, sales reached almost 5 million by mid-2013.
Sharing Honda's global small-car platform with the City, Airwave, first generation Mobilio, Freed and Freed Spike, the Fit is noted for its one-box or monospace design and its re | production of the Honda Accord (which had the same design as the Rover 600 Series but different engines) began in Swindon, and a second engine line was installed. In 1994, production of the Honda Civic began in Swindon; in the same year, the Rover Honda venture ended due to Rover's takeover by BMW. Despite this, the 1995 Rover 400 Series was based on the new Honda Civic.
In August 2000, it was revealed that United Kingdom manufactured Honda cars would be exported to Japan for the first | 78,885 | wow-train |
hello, i just got into into it and I do enjoy horseback riding
I love equestrianism.
same here, i wish i got into earlier, i have much to learn | police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as | bought this house and . It looks a little bit like Graceland ... I got into horses since my wife is into them. We're raising Spanish and Portuguese bullfighting horses. The bloodline is 2000 years old. She's into breeding, but I just love riding. I've also got five dogs, four cats and a partridge in a pear tree."
DeVille did not have a recording contract with an American label in the mid-1990s. His next two albums, "Willy DeVille Live" (1993) and " | 78,886 | wow-train |
I have really been getting into stand-up comedy, I've even been thinking about trying it myself!
I really enjoy stand-up comedy, I love Dave Chapelle, do you like him?
I've actually never watched to Dave Chapelle! The one stand-up comedy act I have really gotten into is Ali Wong. Heard of her?
I have, but I haven't watched her either. I think it's pretty cool how well they can deliver their punchlines during stand-up.
I know! And some of them even use props, music, magic tricks, etc. They make it work with all that stuff!
Yes, very humorous and talented. I'm hoping to catch a live stand-up comedy show next month when we go on vacation. Ever been to one? | -jokes.
Stand-up comedy is often performed in corporate events, comedy clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs, neo-burlesques, colleges and theatres (audiences will give applause breaks more often in theaters
). Outside live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD and the internet.
It can take an amateur comedian about 10 years to perfect the technique needed to be a professional comedian; this is a constant process of learning through failure.
As the name | March 2009 he stated that "I'm not really into that nationality thing but I've been watching the Socceroos in the football and when it comes to sport I really go for Australia. Well Ireland's shit at everything so what choice do I have?" In 2010 he completed a new series "" for The Comedy Channel on Foxtel and Austar. The series features Jimeoin travelling across sections of northern Australia, interspersed with stand-up routines recorded at towns visited along the way.
During the 2014 FIFA World Cup | 78,887 | wow-train |
I have a pet iguana from Mexico! Not as cuddly as a dog, but I love him anyway. His name is Ignacio, Iggy for short.
Are Iguanas good pets? They sound pretty easy to care for. | "mass market" appeal of these animals they are demanding to care for properly over the course of their lifetimes. More often than not, diet, lighting, and other housing conditions for green iguana are inadequate, causing 70% of green iguanas in captivity to die within their first year of life.
Size.
People purchase iguanas due to the small size, low price, and apparent low cost of feeding of juvenile iguanas. Though small as juveniles, iguanas can grow to 6 feet in length and weigh about | Green iguanas are not suitable lizards for beginners. A pet iguana habituates to humans to such a degree that humans no longer cause a "fight or flight" reaction. Iguanas achieve this after they have acclimated to their new habitat, as well as brief but constant interaction with their owner. Fiji banded iguanas are a better iguanid option for less-experienced pet owners because they are smaller and less aggressive; however, they still need specialist care.
Healthy pet iguanas are very observant, confident, and curious. Iguanas can | 78,888 | wow-train |
I love burritos , It is wrapped into a closed-ended cylinder, in contrast to a taco
I love burritos, too! But I don't know much about them. What kind of ingredients are normally in a burrito?
In the US fillings may include a combination of ingredients such as Mexican-style rice or plain rice, boiled beans or refried beans, lettuce, salsa, meat, guacamole, cheese, sour cream
Do you know what guacamole is made from?
Yeah its normally avadoes as the base and lime and onion. Burrito sizes vary greatly though
That sounds really good. I guess I thought all burritos were the same size. Can you tell me more about how they vary?
Well The word "burrito" means "little donkey". So maybe the call them burritos is because they are small and carry stuff
I never thought of that before. It makes sense, though. Can you tell me anything else about burritos? | Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico used corn tortillas in 10,000 B.C. to wrap foods, with fillings of chili peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, squash, and avocados. Historically, the Pueblo peoples of the Southwestern US also made tortillas filled with beans and meat sauce and prepared much like the modern burrito. But these preparations could also be said to be the origin of the simpler taco, rather than the modern burrito.
The precise origin of the modern burrito is not known. Some have speculated that it may have originated with "vaqueros | Burrito
A burrito (, ) is a dish in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine that consists of a flour tortilla with various other ingredients. It is wrapped into a closed-ended cylinder that can be picked up, in contrast to a taco, where the tortilla is simply folded around the fillings. The tortilla is sometimes lightly grilled or steamed to soften it, make it more pliable, and allow it to adhere to itself when wrapped. A wet burrito, however, is covered in sauce and is therefore generally | 78,889 | wow-train |
I like to watch American football, but my son really enjoys playing soccer. He is a goal keeper.
He's not alone! Over 24.4 million people play soccer in the United States.
The world cup this summer was great fun to watch! I was rooting for Sweden, but France played well! | most played team sport in the U.S., behind only basketball and American football. The popularity of the sport in the U.S. has been growing since the 1960s and 1970s and received a significant boost when the United States hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. It is the fourth most popular sport in the United States behind American football, baseball, and basketball, and is the second fastest growing sport in America, surpassed only by lacrosse.
The highest-level men's professional soccer league in | , he's just going to make that save. Tuukka [Rask] is awesome to watch, like with his post coverage, he's down on his knees. That's not how I play it but it's still fun to watch players like that."
Early life.
Ott was born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, part of Metro Detroit. She played her minor hockey for the U19 Little Caesars team and HoneyBaked and Belle Tire girls programs, and the Grosse Pointe Bulldogs boys team.
Playing | 78,890 | wow-train |
I don't eat steak anymore | Steak
A steak () is a meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, potentially including a bone. Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and includes three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.
Steak is usually grilled, but can be pan | :
- Negative: "I don't eat meat anymore" → "I used to eat meat, and (but) I don't now"
- Positive: "I eat meat anymore" → "I didn't use to eat meat, and (but) I do now"
Positive "anymore" occurs in some varieties of North American English, especially in the Midland variety widely spoken in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri and in the varieties of the Mid- | 78,891 | wow-train |
Ever heard of acrophobia? It is a fear of heights.
yea i have that
It is a pretty extreme and irrational fear most of the time.
yea i know it feels bad
Acrophobia is the most severe when the person freaks out when not particularly high up.
yea i know that feel, its awful
It is also in a category of phobias called space and motion discomfort.
huh i didnt know that | Acrophobia
Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort, that share both similar causes and options for treatment.
Most people experience a degree of natural fear when exposed to heights, known as the fear of falling. On the other hand, those who have little fear of such exposure are said to have a head for heights. A head for heights is advantageous for those hiking | Head for heights
To have a head for heights means that one has no acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights, and is not particularly prone to fear of falling or suffering from vertigo, the spinning sensation that can be triggered, for example, by looking down from a high place.
A head for heights is frequently cited as a requirement when mountain hiking or climbing for a particular route as well as paragliding and hang-gliding. It is needed for certain jobs, such as for wind turbine technicians, chimney | 78,892 | wow-train |
We are thinking about going fishing this weekend at the lake. I'm not much of a fisherman, do you have any good tips? | Fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. Fishermen may be professional or recreational and may be both men or women. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.
History.
Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period. Fishing had become a major means of survival as well as a business venture | miss me, sexually?" brKilpatrick: "Hell yeah! You couldn't tell. I want some more." and Beatty: "I'm sorry that we are going through this mess because of a decision that we made to fire Gary Brown. I will make sure that the next decision is much more thought out. Not regretting what was done at all. But thinking about how we can do things smarter."brKilpatrick: "It had to happen though. I'm all the way with that!" | 78,893 | wow-train |
hi friend, have you know about alcoholism
Yes, I do. It's a very broad term that applies to the affects of drinking alcohol. Its terrible
Yes one of my friend affected in that .It is also commonly referred to as alcohol use disorder
Alcohol use disorder was divided into two types, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependance. What type was your friend?
And also have three types mild , moderate and severe. My friend is a mild person.
That's confusing. Is he a binge drinker, where he drinks a lot of alcohol in a short amount of time?
Yes he have more stress so he drink daily bases. Now he is mild stage | occur over hours, last up to several days, or in the event of extended abuse, even weeks. Due to the long-term effects of alcohol misuse, binge drinking is considered to be a major public health issue.
Binge drinking is associated with a profound social harm, economic costs as well as increased disease burden. Binge drinking is more common in males, during adolescence and young adulthood. Heavy regular binge drinking is associated with adverse effects on neurologic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hematologic, immune, musculoskeletal organ | which may result in violence or accidents. About 3.3 million deaths (5.9% of all deaths) are believed to be due to alcohol each year.
Alcoholism, also known as "alcohol use disorder", is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in problems. It was previously divided into two types: alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence. In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions is present: a person drinks large amounts over a long time period | 78,894 | wow-train |
My dad was a fan of the Canadian rock band Rush. Ever heard of them?
Yes, but i don't know much about them.
Rush was made up of Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Pert.
When was this?
They formed the band Rush back in 1968.
Are they still together or too old now? | January 2018 that the band was not going to continue.
According to the RIAA, Rush ranks 86th with sales of 25 million units in the U.S. Although total worldwide album sales are not calculated by any single entity, several industry sources estimated Rush's total worldwide album sales at over 40 million units as of 2017. The group has been awarded 24 gold, 14 platinum, and 3 multi-platinum albums.
Rush has received nominations for seven Grammy Awards. The band has won several Juno Awards, won an International | Rush discography
Rush was a Canadian progressive rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. For the overwhelming majority of its existence, the band has consisted of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The band achieved this definitive form when Neil Peart replaced original drummer, John Rutsey, in July 1974.
The band released its eponymous debut album in March 1974. Since then, they have achieved 24 gold records | 78,895 | wow-train |
Casinos are a fascinating place, and are places that acommodate certain types of gambling, though I don't gamble personally, do you?
Yes i find it very fun to gamble responsably i love playing 21 at the casino
That's good that you gamble responsibly, I know there is a lot of debate over whether the consequences of gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated.
Yea you have to have a little expirience in casino's specially in cards if you actually want to proffit
That's true, the house always has an advantage. Casinos are typically built near hotels and restaurants, do you ever go to restaurants when you go to a casino?
Yes i love the buffets on the casinos they are always so cheap and really good
Buffets are quite good, usually buffets have some hot dishes so I try to go for those often, what about you?
I tend to go for the sea food and sushi that is my favorite thing about all buffets | Sushi
Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice, though it can be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. It is very often prepared with seafood, such as squid, eel, yellowtail, salmon, tuna or imitation crab meat. Many types of sushi are vegetarian. It is often served with pickled ginger ("gari"), wasabi, and soy sauce. Daikon radish or pickled daikon ("takuan") are popular garnishes for the dish.
"Sushi" is sometimes | caring what happens to you. It’s kind of a gamble you make with yourself based on the fact that you’ve got nothing to lose. This nothing means people for me: no family, children, wife – nobody who I feel responsible to. If you’ve got that kind of background, then it is a great adventure. Yes, I would even consider it a kind of fun. There you are pushing the shutter button in an exciting situation: things are happening all around you and it’s very hard | 78,896 | wow-train |
Hi, I am a vegan have you ever tried to go without meat products?
I have not but I have friends that have. I have a friend who is vegitarian because he respects life
Very nice, I am trying veganism because I want to be more healthy and I'm hoping lab grown meats help in my journey.
Do you consider yourself and "ethical vegan"? Where you do not use any animal products
No I don't consider myself ethical because I used to really enjoy meat and will possibly return to it at some point.
I know that veganism can help with the risk of heart disease
Yes, and many animal food products apparently raise the risk for heart disease. I think that disease is a number 1 killer in the USA. | Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels. CVD includes coronary artery diseases (CAD) such as angina and myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack). Other CVDs include stroke, heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, heart arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease, thromboembolic disease, and venous thrombosis.
The underlying mechanisms vary depending on the disease. Coronary | my life and I can't imagine my life without it. It's been an amazing journey, but more than that, it's shaped who I am as a person. The best part is all the friends I have made. I believe that I literally have the best friends anyone could ever imagine hoping for, and I met almost all of them because of swimming. Taking in all the memories with these amazing people, I feel pretty lucky with the paths I have crossed, and the people I have met because | 78,897 | wow-train |
A pet is an animal kept as a companion, rather than for service.
i love dogs
Pets, including dogs, give owners emotional benefits in addition to physical ones.
yes but they're a lot of fun
Pets are noted for their attractive appearances or their loyalty.
and they are playful | pocket pets, while the equine and bovine group include the largest companion animals.
Pets provide their owners (or "guardians") both physical and emotional benefits. Walking a dog can provide both the human and the dog with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. Pets can give companionship to people who are living alone or elderly adults who do not have adequate social interaction with other people. There is a medically approved class of therapy animals, mostly dogs or cats, that are brought to visit confined humans, | Pet
A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, entertainment, or as an act of compassion such as taking in and protecting a hungry stray cat, rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal. Popular pets are often noted for their attractive appearances, intelligence, and relatable personalities, or may just be accepted as they are because they need a home.
Two of the most popular pets are dogs and cats. The technical term for a cat lover is | 78,898 | wow-train |
I love the band Tool. Are you familiar with them?
Yes. They are an American rock band originally from Los Angeles, California!
I remember their first big hit was Sober.
Yes they are quite popular. Tool has won three Grammy awards, performed in tours worldwide, and have had albums that were at the top of the charts in more than one country
Their singer is currently the singer of the band A Perfect Circle. | A Perfect Circle
A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. A Perfect Circle has released four studio albums, the first three during the early 2000s: "Mer de Noms", their debut album in 2000, and followed up by "Thirteenth Step" in 2003; then in 2004, "Emotive"—an album of radically re-worked cover songs. Shortly after "Emotive"s release, the band went on hiatus; Keenan returned to Tool and started up | Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.
To date, the band has released four studio albums, one EP and one box set. | 78,899 | wow-train |
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